Earlier this week on my ride home I stopped at a red light, waiting to make a left turn, when I heard a woman’s voice say, “excuse me.” I ignored it once but she politely persisted, so I finally turned to see a woman in a large four-door sedan with her window all the way rolled down in the lane next to me. I said hello and she asked me if I felt safe on my bike. “Sure,” I said. “Not me.

The League receives a lot of calls and emails about cyclists being killed while riding - too many of them actually. Each and every one makes us on staff take a moment and reflect on our own mortality while riding and the importance of our work in protecting cyclists' rights and fighting for safer roads.

Last month Reuters reported on a study of bicycle injuries that found an increase in serious bicycling injuries in a Denver hospital from 1996 to 2006. The report, which carried the headline “Bicycle injuries in U.S.